Experience with different manufactures of hobby paints

blastmonkey · 08-14-2013, 10:32 AM

I like to find cost effective means of painting figures/minis and I've been seriously considering Army Painter primers and possibly paints. Has anyone here used their products? From what I gather, they're not too bad, but I would like to hear from you guys as well.

ShockerCon · 08-14-2013, 10:41 AM

Never heard of them. I personally use Testors.

Kiryu · 08-14-2013, 10:45 AM

I've had experience using Tamiya, Citadel Colours, and Krylon.

If you're hand painting, I suggest going with Citadel Colours. Krylon works pretty well for spray painting and you can pretty much find it anywhere.

ZeoRangerV · 08-14-2013, 10:46 AM

I usually swear by Citadel paints myself.

blastmonkey · 08-14-2013, 10:54 AM

Here, the website is pretty straightforward, even so far as to provide some tutorials and such. The primers really interest me due to the variety of hues.

bluesparrow · 08-15-2013, 01:41 AM

I think I saw mention that these guys used to work with Games Workshop.

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Kiryu TN's Resident Gunpla Nut Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 8,955	I've had experience using Tamiya, Citadel Colours, and Krylon. If you're hand painting, I suggest going with Citadel Colours. Krylon works pretty well for spray painting and you can pretty much find it anywhere. __________________ Quote: Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV And Toei couldn't care less. You aren't the target audience, get over it. Twitter: @KiryuDX

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